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"I suppose it will take time, but if XLibre carries the FOSS X server torch moving forward, folks will likely want it for these technical reasons."
Yep my completely reasonable just-asking-questions brother in FOSS, those folks sure do want to carry some torches, you got that right.
(car crash at <h…

Made a post on how I got here in this Linux and FOSS journey. Big thank you to all the community.
#foss

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Wie Open Source ist ein Projekt?
https://www.

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

tfw you realize once again that’s there’s a lot fewer social contracts in FOSS than you abide to yourself

FOSS power user laptop choice in 2025:
"
* 998 people running [Apple] M1 from 2005
* many Lenovo/Framework/Dell users, everything runs great, battery is bad, sound and display are so/so
* 30 people use laptops from all corners of galaxy that no one heard of, they swear everything is great (probably not)
* a few billionaires who moved from M4 to M5, haven't had time to unpack it yet, seems to work fast!"

#openalt Czech #Foss office.

Ich gehöre ja zu den priviligierten Menschen, die sich überlegen können, eine #Photovoltaik-Anlage auf das Dach zu stellen.
Seit Kurzem beschäftige ich mich nun mit dem Thema und bin froh, dass ich auf #OpenEMS gestoßen bin, ein

Breaking news: #Google ist ein #Arschloch
https://arstechnica.com/gad…

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid sees Google’s plans as a threat to FOSS apps.

For those of you who are wondering where I have been, as I barely get any sort of attention on my artwork when I post, I have decided to focus my attention on bluesky instead.
I know, I know, Mastodon and the fediverse are meant to be unshackled and FOSS platforms, but I honestly need the engagement in order to increase the chances of receiving commissions, especially since I'm no longer getting food money from the government.

Tee-day #linux #sudo #foss

Tablecruncher was once a commercial CSV editor has now been made #foss by its author!
Super lightweight and pretty to look at: https://tablecruncher.com/blog/2025/tablecrunc…

The kamikaze drone software world cannot continue to be dominated by the likes of Blackwater and Raytheon. #FOSS community, assemble!

#vim hat heute Geburtstag!
https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/115479105194109581

#SchleswigHolstein: Mailsystem komplett auf #FOSS umgestellt
https://gnulinux.ch/schleswig-holstein

Explicit modelling of subject dependency in BCI decoding
Michele Romani, Francesco Paissan, Andrea Foss\`a, Elisabetta Farella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23247 https://

Explicit modelling of subject dependency in BCI decoding
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) suffer from high inter-subject variability and limited labeled data, often requiring lengthy calibration phases. In this work, we present an end-to-end approach that explicitly models the subject dependency using lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) conditioned on the subject's identity. Our method integrates hyperparameter optimization strategies that prioritize class imbalance and evaluates two conditioning mechanisms to adapt pre-trained models to…

For those interested in local and self-hosting, gonna be running our monthly #libre/#FOSS catchup at https://meeting.iridescent.nz tonight at 20:00 NZST talking about migrating our *many* web services built with Doc…

Now that the first draft of my PyCon UK keynote is done and my nerves are settling down a bit, why don’t I check on the issues and PRs that accumulated on my FOSS projects…

Repeat after me: The Linux Foundation are a bunch of Big Tech bellends. Don’t listen to a single thing they say.
#FOSS

I meanwhile arived in Amsterdam for the Embedded Linux Conf Europe which I haven't been to in ages. Will present on FOSS eSIM integration into Embedded Linux devices #elce2025 #linux #esim

What's the equivalent of #Immich but for audio and video files?
I'm looking for a self-hostable #FOSS thing that I can throw the rest of my media library in the face (movies, music, downloaded youtube videos, etc.) and it'll sort everything nicely, maybe even query databases to find metada…

What a nice and #foss service for anonymous email forwarding with #openpgpg support.
https://addy.io/

Free, Open-source Anonymous Email Forwarding | addy.io
Create unlimited email aliases for free. Protect your real email from spam by using a different address for each service. Privacy friendly, anonymous replies.

Have to say Sharkey is beautiful :pika:
Here is my profile on Sharkey @…
#fediverse #Sharkey

And that's a wrap - the newly refreshed laptop has been handed over to teen with most of the packages functional. Thanks for following along on this @… installation journey with me and thanks to all #linux maintainers, forum contributors and FOSS advocates around keeping the system running.
👏 WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU!👏
The final judgement won't be clear until Monday when the first log in at school happens but hopefully it will be successful, or the IT support is going to have to deal with some very salty comments (from me).
16/16
FIN

How the open web closes, FOSS edition...
We are running a contest to create a new logo for ASF #SpamAssassin, but because of the steps taken to consolidate wikis for #TheASF and protect the ASF Confluence instance from various malefactors we have yet to figure out how to allow submissions from pe…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Urine Idiot:
🎵 Urine Idiot Foss version
#UrineIdiot

Would love to hear migration thoughts & plans (if any) from other FOSS maintainers (and sponsors!) currently using Github Sponsors. Are you planning/supporting to leave? Are you afraid you'll lose sponsors?
Personally, I'd also love to hear from my own sponsors (some of which are also here 👋). I'm considering migrating various public & still private htt…

Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006
thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design in its many forms.

I might be in #Brno on Sep-29. Anyone for a #foss beer?

😮‍💨
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@Krishnamishra/115413344234799425

For those interested, we'll be having our monthly #Libre / #FOSS / #OpenEverything virtual gathering tomorrow Tues 9/9 starting at 20:00 NZST at

"Getting Hired to Work on FOSS - The Do-s, Don't-s and Pitfalls for Everyone Involved" is what my friend Till Adam talked about at #Akademy2025. He also has a short section on why Free Software is worth more compared to proprietary software, so you should take higher rates and principals should be willing to pay more. And he draws from experience of contracts that

Are you in #Prague ? You must visit my talk entitled:
Disobey: #FOSS tools to fight back!
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linux…

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

This is one of the many reasons I use #Bandcamp and #Qobuz.
I actually own my #music, no corporate algorithm deciding what I “should” like, no invisible hand yanking albums away because some…

If anyone else who's in the #OpenStreetMap/#opensource cosmos needs a reason to stop using Organic Maps and switch to some free/open alternatives:
In addition to them rolling their own 'data license', it seems like their recent license modifications for code could also be viewed as violating the Apache license/the creation of a non-FOSS license too.
That the devs are unwilling to give a clear answer to those questions speaks volumes imho…
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/10987

New Clean Website, Same Awesome Event - SCaLE 23x Call for Presentations
🗣️ Got a great talk idea? SCaLE 23x Call for Presentations is now open! Submit your session before Dec 1, 2025. Speak your FOSS truth!
👉 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

Governments freeloading on FOSS, not helping with funding (and at the same time collecting taxes on income/donations sourced otherwise) are just as exploitative as privately held companies, maybe even worse...
https://scalie.zone/@aks/115012388922867133

I just submitted talk proposals for @… and @…. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy #foss tools we must use and it covers the…

In full swing on Trixie, with awesome wm.
But, most importantly, also revisit the dk window manager. And that is so nice 👍🏻.
Very lean, made by Nate Maia, one of the main characters in the life and times of ArchLabs. And that's where I got all this craziness from.
Excellent distro, with an excellent community as well. And so many great offsprings out if it.
This whole Foss thing we find ourselves in today could learn a thing or three from it.

Compressible boundary layers over isotropic porous surfaces
Ludovico Foss\`a, Pierre Ricco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10422 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1042…

Compressible boundary layers over isotropic porous surfaces
A compressible laminar boundary layer developing over an isotropic porous substrate is investigated by asymptotic and numerical methods. The substrate is modeled as an array of cubes. The momentum and enthalpy balance equations are derived by volume averaging. The self-similar solution proposed by Tsiberkin (2018) [Transp. Porous Media 121(1):109-120] for streamwise-growing permeability is extended to include compressibility, heat conduction and a nonlinear drag. The velocity profile shows an i…

On W10 going EOL: It might seem cold but with how many times I've told people I know to look into Mint with encouragement on learning the habit of using FOSS software wherever you can and just getting told something along the lines of "I'll see how everything works out" only to see them still have everything on W10 a few weeks later, I think I'm just gonna sit back with my bucket of popcorn and wait for the fireworks. I've done all I could do lol.

to everyone asking foss maintainers to finally publish a new version: as a teenager, have you ever been asked by someone to clean your room after you decided to do it yourself? 😇

I've just been reminded we're due for our October #libre catch up - tomorrow (Tues 7/10), 20:00 NZDT - at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be looking at a few fully Free & Open Sour…

Efficient Input-Constrained Impulsive Optimal Control of Linear Systems with Application to Spacecraft Relative Motion
Ethan Foss, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03423

Efficient Input-Constrained Impulsive Optimal Control of Linear Systems with Application to Spacecraft Relative Motion
This work presents a novel algorithm for impulsive optimal control of linear time-varying systems with the inclusion of input magnitude constraints. Impulsive optimal control problems, where the optimal input solution is a sum of delta functions, are typically formulated as an optimization over a normed function space subject to integral equality constraints and can be efficiently solved for linear time-varying systems in their dual formulation. In this dual setting, the problem takes the form …

I need help: When talking about the secure communication, what is the app you would recommend? I am looking to expand my conference talk about secure communication, so please be wild and boost this as well.
#foss #e2ee

On Recurrence of the Infinite Server Queue
Sergey Foss, Peter Glynn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06075 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06075

On Recurrence of the Infinite Server Queue
This paper concerns the recurrence structure of the infinite server queue, as viewed through the prism of the maximum dater sequence, namely the time to drain the current work in the system as seen at arrival epochs. Despite the importance of this model in queueing theory, we are aware of no complete analysis of the stability behavior of this model, especially in settings in which either or both the inter arrival and service time distributions have infinite mean. In this paper, we fully develop…

Crosslisted article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[1/2]:
- Efficient Input-Constrained Impulsive Optimal Control of Linear Systems with Application to Space...
Ethan Foss, Simone D'Amico

Favourite #FOSS #Android app of the month:
#Lemudroid
After setting up #Batocera…

The Surface Orientation Ambiguity for Single Molecules at Dielectric Interfaces
E. Dey, M. Elorza, F. W. Foss, J. J. Gomez Cadenas, B. J. P. Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03903

The Surface Orientation Ambiguity for Single Molecules at Dielectric Interfaces
Fluorescent molecules emit light in a dipole radiation pattern that can be used to infer their orientation through defocused fluorescence microscopy. Proper measurement of the orientation requires mathematical modeling of the radiation pattern expected for a dipole in the geometry of interest, and subsequent comparison against experimental data. We point out an ambiguity in common calculations of these patterns that appears to compromise orientation measurements for molecules that are especiall…

If you are looking for good privacy respecting messaging and other apps, you could check my slides from @… conference here : https://

Whoa. My @… talk was accepted. Come and join the only talk that will not be recorded.
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2025/talk/KGHCKC/

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

A few days left to propose a developer room at #FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-09-21-call-for-participation/

FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation